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LOT 2071
Viking Silver Stamped Broad Axe Pendant
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (10.71 grams, 52.11 mm).
Wire hoop; free-running triangular pendant decorated with two bands of stamped opposed pellet-in-triangle motifs to each face. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
Literature
Cf. Fuglesang, S.H., Viking and medieval amulets in Scandinavia in Fornvännen, Journal of Swedish Antiquarian Research, 1989, no.84, pp.15-27.
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